The media can often have a philosophical bias towards government “doing something” to “solve” societal problems. One recent example is how those in the press perceive a popular issue like education funding.

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The “deep cuts” headlines have turned into a relaxed report about more government spending.

This is not about whether the specific cut to education funding was good or bad. The issue is the reaction — a built-in assumption that government should almost always grow while media critiques heat up whenever a program, no matter how inefficient, is actually cut.

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